The first plenary meeting, imparted in Castelldefels, at the CTTC's Auditorium was dated from 11th to 15th July 2011, and was divided in the three Modules listed in the previous sections. During the five days, ESRs have carried out the courses at the CTTC centre, following the three different Modules. During those days, ESRs will be also invited to several different events, such as:

- Cultural Event in Barcelona

- Social Dinner in Barcelona

- Cultural event in Castelldefels

- Social Dinner in Castelldefels Beach

1.1 Program Module I:

1st Day - 11th of July

Module I: Writing a scientific paper

Title

Instructor

9.00-9.15

Welcome message from Greenet coordinators

Prof. Luis Alonso and Dr. Christos Verikoukis

9.15-9.30

Introduction

Prof. FabrizioGranelli

9.30-11.00

The basics – purpose of a paper

How to prepare a paper contribution: structure, concept and purpose

Prof. FabrizioGranelli

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

How to present ideas, experiments, conclusions

Prof. FabrizioGranelli

13.00-14.30

Lunch Break

14.30-16.00

Grammar and Language

Plagiarism

Dr. Christine Robinson

16.00-16.30

Coffee Break

16.30-18.00

Methods of validation of new research findings

Difference between marginal and disruptive contributions

Dr.SinanSinanović

20.00-21.30

Cultural Event in Barcelona (guided visit to the historical gothic city centre)

21.30-23.00

Social Dinner in Barcelona (Restaurant Flamant)

Dr. Christos Verikoukis and Dr. Luis Alonso in the 1st day of Seminar

Prof. Fabrizio Granelli in the 1st day of Seminar

Dr.Christine Robinson in the 1st day of Seminar

Dr. Sinan Sinanovic in the 1st day of Seminar

2nd Day – 12th of July

Module I: Writing a scientific paper

Title

Instructor

9.00-9.30

Introduction

Dr. Marco Di Renzo

9.30-11.00

Journals and Conferences (differences and classification)

Impact factor

Dr. Marco Di Renzo

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Review process of journal and conference papers

How to answer to reviewers' comments, with examples

Dr. Marco Di Renzo

13.00-14.30

Lunch Break

1.2 Program Module II:

2nd Day - 12th of July

Module II: Understanding Patents

14.30-16.00

·Introduction

·Which ideas should be patentable?

·What is patentable?

·The patenting process?

Mr Oscar Carbo

16.00-16.30

Coffee Break

16.30-17.15

·Difference between national and international patents?

·Territories?

·What is PCT?

Mr Oscar Carbo

Cultural event in Castelldefels (guided visit to the Castelldefels castle)

Social dinner in Castelldefels Beach (Restaurant La Vida)

Dr. Marco di Renzo in the 2nd day of Seminar

Prof. Oscar Carbó in the 2nd day of Seminar

3rd Day - 13th of July

Module II: Understanding Patents

Title

Instructor

9.00-10.30

·Why is a patent strategy important

·Why patenting and alternative routes to protect inventions

·Value of a patent

·Costs

Dr. Maureen Kinsler

10.30-11.00

Coffee Break

11.00-11.45

·Patent searching and landscaping

·Patent infringement

Dr. Maureen Kinsler

11.45-13.00

·The structure of a patent and numbering

·What is the difference between foreground and background IPR

·Priority date and different stages of a patent

·Structure and purpose of claims

Dr Susana Ruiz

13.00-14.30

Lunch Break

14.30-15.30

·The information required from the inventor

·Patent language

·The review process

·Examiner reports and how to react

Dr Susana Ruiz

15.30 - 15.45

Coffee Break

15.45 - 16.30

·Practical aspects of finding the right idea to file as a patent

·Patents as a tool to protect IPR

·Patents as means to manage competitors

Mr Klaus Starnberger

16.45 - 18.15

·Patents for marketing purposes

·Impact of patents on a business case

Mr Klaus Starnberger

Dr. Maureen Kinsler in the 3rd day of Seminar

Dr. Susan Ruiz in the 3rd day of Seminar

Mr. Klaus Starnberger in the 3rd day of Seminar

1.2 Program Module III:

4th Day - 14th of July

Module III: Presentation Skills

Title

Instructor

9.00-9.30

Introduction

Prof. Harry Skianis

9.30-11.00

Presentation class: Introduction; planning the presentation

Marco Quoiani

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Giving the presentation: General tips; Leading the audience; case studies; workshop

30-May 2013
Raúl Palacios from UNITN mentioned the GREENET project in an interview to discuss about Trento and its University, published in the "esglobal" website, in the article "El ‘Silicon Valley’ italiano".View Site

May 2013
Marco Di Renzo was invited to present the research activities on Spatial Modulation in Orange Labs (Rennes, France)

26April&3May
Fabrizio Granelli will speak about GREENET in his seminars on "Design of green networks: towards the Green Internet", which will be held in Campinas and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).

April 2013
Marco Di Renzo and Harald Haas from GREENET, will present a tutorial titled “Spatial Modulation for MIMO Wireless Systems” to flagship international conferences on communications: IEEE WCNC-2013 on April 7th, 2013 and IEEE EW-2013 on April 15th, 2013, respectively.WCNC-2013 View Presentation..EW-2013 View Presentation.

6-7 March 2013
GREENET- 4th Plenary Meeting took place in Aveiro, hosted by IT.

14-15 February 2013
GREENET participated in the ICT-ACROPOLIS Winter School in Barcelona
View Site.

January-2013
GREENET signs a Liaison Agreement with ICT-ACROPOLIS until September 2013

November 2012
F. Granelli presented GREENET and the topic of green wireless networking in the framework of the IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Tour in Latin America, in Guayaquil and Cuenca (Ecuador), Lima (Peru'), November 2012.

28-September 2012
GREENET and its current results were presented at the Future Internet booth during the Researchers' Night in Trento

20-September 2012
GREENET presentation in the Small Cell Forum Plenary meeting in Warsaw.CTTC and IT gave a presentation with title "Energy-efficient Business Models and Mobility Management for the LTE-Advanced Femtocell Network"

19-September 2012
The 1st GREENET Industrial Dissemination Day will take place in Barcelona, Spain, co-located with the IEEE CAMAD 2012.

19-21 September 2012
Greenet- 3rd Seminar took place in Barcelona.

5-August 2012
GREENET ESRs Xavier Pons (CASSIDIAN), Víctor Sucasas (IT) and Raúl Palacios (UNITN) had an interview to discuss about the GREENET project in the article of “Un Silicon Valley en los Alpes italianos”, which was managed by Eusebio Val and published in the well-known Barcelona-based daily “La Vanguardia”.View ArticleView Article

01-May-2012
GREENET ESR in Trento, Raul Palacios, had an interview to discuss about the GREENET project in the article of “Una silicon valley tra I monti del Trentino” from the Terra magazine, which is published in the north-region of Italy

24-25 April 2012
Invited talk in Surrey by A.Antonopoulos and C.Verikoukis (CTTC) on Flexible Networks Workshop supported by the UK EPSRC Communication Network. The talk was focused on energy efficient game theoretic MAC policies for wireless data dissemination.

18-20 April 2012
Fabrizio Granelli (UNITN) presented the GREENET project and green wireless communications at the ICTDays event in Trento, Italy. All partners from the European Institute of Innovation and Technology ICTLabs participated in the event the first day, including governors of the italian regions involved in EIT Italy consortium.

18-20 April 2012
Fabrizio Granelli, Raul Palacios, and Saud Althunibat presented a poster of green wireless networking (including GREENET) at the ICT Days event (http://2012.ictdays.it/en). The event represents interaction with other research activities, since the event was part of EIT (European Institute for Innovation and Technology) ICT Labs events.

16 February 2012
Dr.Vasilis Frederikos, on behalf of Green Radio project, presented a seminar on Delay Tolerant Networking for Cellular Network in Barcelona

14-February 2012
Christos Verikoukis, participated in the Trend Workshop in Gent and gave an overview of the Greenet Project.View Presentation

21-22 November 2011
2nd Greenet Planery Meeting took place in Elancourt (France) hosted by the EADS.

09 - November 2011
Invited talk to the UPorto's ECE Back To Basics Colloquium (6th Ed.) Wednesday November 9 by Frank Fitzek on "Performance Evolution and Implementation Rules for Network Coding". View Site

17 October 2011
Fabrizio Granelli gave a presentation on "Communications and the Smart Grid" within the "Communications for Power Engineers" tutorial at IEEE SmartGridComm'11 in Brussels, Belgium. The presentation was focused on communications standards for smart grid, including cognitive radios and power consumption"

06- October 2011
CTTC participated in the 2nd Workshop of COST Action IC0902, in Castelldefels/Barcelona, Spain, represented by CTTC.

26 -27 September 2011
GREENET participated in the 3rd Plenary meeting of TREND, in Madrid represented by IT.

20 -22 June 2011
An invited talk on the 3rd meeting of the COST Action IC0905 TERRA, in Brussels, Belgium presented by CTT.

15 July 2011
First Greenet seminar took place in Castelldefels(Barcelona) hosted by the CTTC.Read more...

7 - 8 July 2011
First Greenet plenary meeting took place in Castelldefels (Barcelona) hosted by the UPC.

This project has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 264759